The IGP intelligence Response Team has on Sunday, recovered the remains of John Iheanacho, a senior staff of the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC, who was kidnapped and murdered by suspected kidnappers around Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The team was led to the forest where the victim was buried by two of the four suspects.
The victim who was buried in a shallow grave by the suspects in Abia State, TPCN gathered, was the President of Eastern Zone of Investment Cooperative Society Limited.
Iheanacho according to reports, was shot by his abductors and taken to an uncompleted building in a community in Ndoki, Oyigbo Local government of Rivers state where he died of bullet wounds.
Commander of the IGP Intelligent Response Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, told newsmen that Samuel Ikechukwu Alexander, popularly called Pillar, Chima Mark, Stephen Iniobong and Teddy Ifeanyi had collected ransom in dollars from their victim before they killed him.
DCP Abba Kyari said the four-man criminal gang who hail from Southern states of Abia, Imo, Akwa Ibom and Rivers State had also abducted two female victims, alongside John Iheanacho, who were raped an made to pay 1.5million naira each before their release.
The Paramount ruler of Omuoshi in Ndoki community in Oyigbo, Eze Friday Oscar, expressed shock at the killing and assured the police of maximum cooperation to uncover circumstances that led to the death of Iheanacho.
The remains of Iheanacho has been deposited in the mortuary.
